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A daily chronology of Coast Guard history

Air Stations

Alaska and the Coast Guard

African-Americans and the Coast Guard

Artifacts--lighthouse lenses, lifeboats, uniforms and more!

Auxiliary

Aviation--anything Coast Guard that flies!

Bering Sea Patrol

Bibliographies

Blueprints--cutters

Blueprints--lighthouses

Books on the Coast Guard

Celebrities who served in or are associated with the Coast Guard

Coast Guard and its "organization"--why is it under the Department of Transportation, how many agencies have been merged into the Coast Guard to make it what it is today??  (Including other questions regarding its organizational history.)

Coast Guard Auxiliary

Coast Guard Hockey Team The Cutters

Coast Guard Medal Awardees

Coast Guard Museum at the Coast Guard Academy in New London

Coast Guard people--oral histories, famous Coast Guardsmen, Coast Guard heroes

Coloring Books

Combat: The Coast Guard's combat history

Commandants

Crew lists

Cutters & Craft--anything Coast Guard that floats!

The Cutters: Coast Guard Hockey Team

D-Day: The Coast Guard at Normandy

Deep Freeze operations and other "polar" activities

Desert Shield/Desert Storm

Disasters

Documents, regulations and other primary sources on Coast Guard history

Drugs: The Coast Guard's efforts to stop drug smuggling

Ensign

Environment: The Coast Guard's role in protecting the environment

Facilities

Fisheries conservation & enforcement

Flags

Frequently asked questions

Genealogy

Heroes

History: Articles covering all of the Coast Guard's illustrious history (and the history of its predecessors too!)

Hockey Team: The Coast Guard Cutters

Ice breaking

Immigration: The Coast Guard's role in preventing illegal immigration into the U.S.

International Ice Patrol

Law enforcement, fisheries, narcotic and migrant interdiction

Life-Saving Service, stations, keepers, surfmen and Gold Medal lifesaving rescues!

Lighthouses, Lightkeepers, and the Lighthouse Service (anything to do with lighthouses!)

Lighthouse keepers

Lighthouse keeper uniforms

Lightships

Logbooks -- cutters & lifeboat stations

Logbooks -- lighthouse stations

Mariel Boatlift, 1980

Maritime disasters: shipwrecks, floods & hurricanes

Maritime Safety, navigation, passenger vessels

Mascots

Master Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard

Minorities and the Coast Guard

Museum (Coast Guard)

Museums with Coast Guard exhibits (Other than the Coast Guard Museum at New London)

Muster rolls

Narcotic interdiction: The Coast Guard's efforts to stop drug smuggling

National Defense

Normandy: D-Day and the Coast Guard

Oil spills--the Coast Guard and the environment

Oral Histories

Personnel records

Photography

Plans -- cutters, lighthouses & stations

Reunions

Researching Coast Guard history?

Revenue Cutter Service/Revenue Marine/System of Cutters

St. Louis: The Coast Guard's Role in the Voyage of the Damned.

Search & Rescue

Service records

Shipmates

Shipwrecks

Sinbad

Small Boat & Life-Saving Stations

SPARS: Women's Reserve in World War II

Standard

Stations

Stripe/Slash (the Coast Guard's unique red "slash")

Uniforms

Veterans

Vietnam

Women and the Coast Guard

Wars (The Coast Guard's role in the Nation's conflicts)

World Wars I & II

ADDRESSES:

U.S. Coast Guard
Historians' Office (G-IP-4)
2100 2nd Street, SW
Washington, DC 20593
(202) 267-2596

Coast Guard Museum
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
15 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320
(860) 444-8511

U.S. Coast Guard Curatorial Services
7945 Fernham Lane
Forestville, MD 20747
(301) 763-4008

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Last Updated: October 2003